[OE-core] [RFT][PATCH V2] eglibc-2.16: Use tar ball instead of svn SRC_URI

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 17:42 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Adapt the recipes to fetch a tarball.
> >         Tarball is generated from latest 2.16 branch
> >         which has e500-math_private.patch already applied
> >         hence we remove that patch.
> >
> >         Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> >
> > What the motivation to move to the tarball?
>
> svn:// recipes depend on subversion-native. Having switched to the new
> ubversion version, we've in a nasty position of it being hard to
> ASSUME_PROVIDED with the API breakage.
>
> Building subversion-native is a pain and delays the core part of the
> build significantly. Switching to tarball recipes should improve our
> build speed a lot.
>
> So its mainly for performance reasons that we should do this.
>
> My only question is whether we need to include the svn revision in the
> tarball name?
>

Yes please do or it is a nightmare to track it back to a revision.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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